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Hi Pete, thank you so much for answering that fast! OK. Checked. I thought so anyway but other "experts" in other forums made me doubting. As for $0C08: I will try this one. It is no problem to calculate values 1...255 (delivered by A/D onboard this Open Cockpits card) to -16384...+16384 by means of SIOC. I'll let you know about the results. Kind Regards, Peter

Dear Pete, I would really be grateful if you could help me before I get insane... I have a 737 home cockpit here based on FSX and PM (GC & PMsystems), CPFlight MCP, EFIS and radios, DIY OHP backed up by Open Cockpits cards (Spain) running under their SIOC language and rudders / yokes / throttle by Cockpitsonic (Germany) and ... FSUIPC (licensed since 2006, upgraded to v4.x last year) ... of course :). To my surprise everything is working quite well so far in spite of that mixture of systems. Beside one thing: I can't get a tiller (hardware by Open Cockpits - a poti, not more, but nice...) connected to FSX :(. I was stupid enough to believe that connecting the tiller's poti to an unused analogic input of one of these Open Cockpits cards and assigning the respecting value (0...255) by means of a snippet of SIOC script via FSUIPC would do the job. It doesn't... I read a lot about tillers in this forum and others. I read about offsets in your FSUIPC documentations like $0C08 and $3BC4. All my experiments with these offsets would NOT work. At last, when I saw one of your answers in another thread <quote> "FSX does have a steering control. I don't know whether it works well or not, having never tried it. the FSUIPC tiller uses the FS rudder control as that was always the only way to steer." <quote> and read about effectivity of tiller vs. rudders at certain ground speeds, I tried $0BBA (FSX rudders) but there seems to be a collision with the values delivered by the Cockpisonic rudders which come with their own driver. So, please, Pete: Is there ANY way to connect my tiller without an axis card? Via which offset could I tell FSX to cooperate with me? Do I have to learn one more programming language for that (SIOC was hard enough...)? Thanks a lot in advance, Peter

Thanks Pete, I've no more questions. Using the 'try and fail' method I had stumbled into 'Offset Byte SetBits' and 'Offset Byte ClrBits' in the meantime and - well that's it. Thanks Thomas for your SHORT AND DIRECT hint what to do. THAT'S what I was after. Simple and clear. Would it be suitable to ask YOU for help instead in the future? Maybe it could even be in German then as I think I've heard you're German like me. :) Thanks again Pete for your patience. Hope I didn't bother you too much after all... Regards, Peter P.S. Somebody may close or even delete this thread now.

Thanks a lot, Pete, for answering THAT quickly. And: what a wonderful lesson about binary <--> decimal... ! It seems that unfortunately I expressed myself badly. My problem is less about not understanding the binary system, but not knowing how to set a certain bit at a certain PM offset WITHOUT changing the rest of the bits at that offset. I suppose the FS control 'Offset Byte Set' is not suitable for that purpose. But which one instead: 'Offset Byte Setbits'? And which parameter to use in order to determine which bit shall be toggled? Example: Offset 0x56B1 Bits 0...5 concerns the fuel switches of the B737 OHP (=pmsystems). Setting Bit 0 to '1' would switch on the FWD 1 Pump. Sending a '1' to Bit 1 of the mentioned offset by means of the above mentioned 'Offset Byte Set' control switches the FWD 2 pump on but resets FWD 1 pump to 'Off' etc. etc. So what I mean is: how can I set (and clear) certain bits at a given PM offset without influencing the rest of the bunch? Do I have to buy and read one the books you mentioned in your post reply or is there a simple 'recipe' you could give me? Regards, Peter

Dear Pete, I spent a _lot_ of time READING threads in severals forums with my search for 'enlightenment' concerning to interact with PM's pmsystems. I've purchased their GC, MCP, CDU and pmsystems package for Boeing as well as (of course!) a key for your wonderful FSUIPC and WideFS. Thanks for the latter, Pete, it's _SO_ worthwhile an investment that I was really thinking about voluntarely 'renewing' my license these days. What you think? Christmas is near, you know... OK, my question... I was happy to learn from experimenting with available switches on my SAITEK Yoke & additional lever unit that it's true what you write in your documentation for FSUIPC advanced users: basicly _everything_ is programmable by using the appropriate offset. I mean _WITHOUT_ buying expensive additional hardware, just by means of a spare switch on any joystick... Now my problem: seems that I've missed school when they told us how to set and clear certain bits at certain addresses ('offsets') of FS via the FSUIPC Interface. I managed to switch on the 737 BATT (0x5628) and the APU (0x050F) by sending a '0', '1' or '2' as parameter because a BYTE is expected as parameter, but I failed to switch on a certain fuel pump as this needs to set certain BITS at 0x56B1. Can you help me with this problem _AND_ give me a hint where to find a nice tutorial about this kind of simple bit-manipulating stuff (lessons on masking bits and conditional operations are welcome, too !) because I _hate_ to ask questions and _love_ to be able to help myself... :-) Thanks, Pete, in advance for your efforts! Peter (Switzerland) Thanks in advance for your help, Pete, and excuse my please, I'm 59 and _pharmacist_(Did you know pharamcists are ALL stupid as it comes to binary logic?) :mrgreen: :-)